The problem is that it’s technically true. Having knowledge of the pending charges is a different thing than knowing about the incident - and when presented with a player asking leave for mental health reasons, I don’t think you can speculate on the causes - you just need to accept the player and his medical team’s request at face value.This is 1000000000% bullshit and it pisses me off that people will actually believe them
You can’t be asking, “Oh, mental health huh? This doesn’t have anything to do with that gang rape thing you have a 8* in 25 (or so) chance of having been involved with, does it?”, you just need to hear the statement and get out of the way.
It would have been better if the PR statement left out the mental health bit in the statement, but the Flames were in the unfortunate position of dealing with it first - and they got it a bit wrong. The others that followed managed to avoid making the same mistake…
it isn’t a great look for the Flames, but it’s not “fire the GM” bad.
* Reports have said there were 8. Now 5 have been charged. Seems to be 3 missing. What’s up with that?
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